So, after some time to let the last one wrap up, its time for mixoff #3.

What is it? Just expand the Spoiler:

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In the spirit of the New Year, let us enter into a year of new beginnings & try something new in this forum.

So, what is it?

The BWMO is an every other week (as of right now, it may change based on popularity) chance to mix some raw sessions & compare them to your fellow forum members.
You'll be given a link to a session to download, you'll have one week to mix and post it to a streamable source (Soundcloud, Dropbox, Youtube, UG, ect) so we can listen to it.
This way, fellow UGers can give feedback on your mix & we can see who can mix the best.

Why should I participate?

This is just a great way to learn to mix better, learn different techniques & get feedback on your mixing. Also, since we're not mixing the same style all the time, you'll learn to mix different genres of music.

Are there any rules?

There are a few small rules, nothing too major but:

1. Please use a limiter on your mixes, not only will it help your mix but we don't want to listen to a bunch of tracks that keep clipping.
2. No recording extra parts. If you're a professional mix engineer, you're not going to be adding parts to songs.
3. As of right now, there are 3 plugins/virtual instruments (if MIDI drums are needed) that are very frowned upon:
1. EZMix, this is a mixing contest, not a "slap presets everywhere to make it sound mixed" contest.
2. Waves Artist Signature Series Bundles, same reason EZMix is frowned upon (Note: To avoid confusion, its these bundles, not the CLA Classic Compressors or JJP Analog Collection)
3. Steven Slate Drums Chris Lord-Alge Expansion, it just makes mixing drums too easy
4. Have fun. Sure, there is the desire to want to have the best mix but there are no prizes, just internet bragging rights.

Hey, I'd like to submit my session to be mixed, can we do that?

Totally, just send Lockwolf a PM and we can work something out.

Mix on

Our 3rd mixoff is from Odirumm. Since I'm too lazy to rewrite everything, here's the original post:

Hi folks. Here are some multi tracks of The Ghost Inside's song "White Light" for mixing practice.

The rar contains 3 mono guitar DIs (L, R, C), a ,mono bass DI, and midi drums. Tempo should be embedded in the drum midi, but if not, the tempo is 130 throughout.

Guitars are a bit sloppy here and there, but nothing majorly terrible. Bass is DI from Zombass 2.

Unconvincing MIDI drums, MIDI bass....nah, to be honest I think I'll be skipping this one. Cheers for the track though Odirunn.

Hey, at least we know they're tight then! I personally think these are the best tracks so far in this project. Since the drums are midi, it's your job to make it convincing through velocity editing I also like that there's only DI guitars - that, coupled with midi drums only, is going to make all the entries more unique. I will probably give this a spin, unlike the past two mix-offs

The only thing that was annoying to mix was the bass in the fast parts. Would definitely have preferred a real bass, but eh

EDIT: Here's a quick mix, without any mumbo-jumbo: [new link with re-tracked bass in later post]

As happy as I am for DI guitars and MIDI drums, I'm not to keen on the MIDI bass. Something about it just bugs the hell outta me with it's sound (may have something to do with me being a bassist). Might just have to break rule 2 slightly and learn/record the line and post it here for everyone (so it's still fair). I get that the rule says no re-recording parts, but where are you finding a professional mix engineer who's mixing something with MIDI bass? They would have got the band to use a session bassist

As happy as I am for DI guitars and MIDI drums, I'm not to keen on the MIDI bass. Something about it just bugs the hell outta me with it's sound (may have something to do with me being a bassist). Might just have to break rule 2 slightly and learn/record the line and post it here for everyone (so it's still fair). I get that the rule says no re-recording parts, but where are you finding a professional mix engineer who's mixing something with MIDI bass? They would have got the band to use a session bassist

The biggest problem with the bass is that it sounds like it's all at velocity 127 - extremely hard plucking sound on all the notes. It's like the snares of Superior - they sound pretty shit at 127. However I thought it was a fun challenge to overcome and I think it's pretty much at the heart of the mixoff - to polish a work as much as possible, no matter how "turdy" it may be

As happy as I am for DI guitars and MIDI drums, I'm not to keen on the MIDI bass. Something about it just bugs the hell outta me with it's sound (may have something to do with me being a bassist). Might just have to break rule 2 slightly and learn/record the line and post it here for everyone (so it's still fair). I get that the rule says no re-recording parts, but where are you finding a professional mix engineer who's mixing something with MIDI bass? They would have got the band to use a session bassist

Agreed. I'm not enjoying enjoying this one at all, everything sounds too fake.

I'm doing 24-channel live recording at a festival next week so we could have a live mixoff next time! I'm sick of everything being flawless and perfect.

Agreed. I'm not enjoying enjoying this one at all, everything sounds too fake.

I'm doing 24-channel live recording at a festival next week so we could have a live mixoff next time! I'm sick of everything being flawless and perfect.

Hmm am I sensing an opportunity to annoy the crap out of myself, and use nothing but REAPER's own plugins?

Also once I either get the tracks from Priam, or get started on the next EP there will be some Masquerade: #19 tracks up here to play with. Side-question: if I were to submit tracks, and the scratch track my BL typically makes for a reference to what the song should sound like. Am I still able to enter? or would that be like cheating because it's my tracks?